Post nr: 3990 Thread: [3990] |
Author: Jabbress (Plese join The Last Battel Please!!!!!!) | Posted: (6611 days ago) |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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In my book The missing peace council One of my characters,Lor |
Post nr: 3997 Thread: [3990] |
Author: Kiddalee (I'm here. Bwahahaha!) | Posted: (6611 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3990 by Jabbress |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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Maybe it would help to try thinking a little less about how good or evil the guy is, and just let him drive his destiny. He is the character doing all these things, after all. |
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Author: Jabbress (Plese join The Last Battel Please!!!!!!) | Posted: (6610 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3997 by Kiddalee |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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THat would work wont it. Alright thank you. |
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Post nr: 4053 Thread: [3990] |
Author: dmeredith | Posted: (6600 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3990 by Jabbress |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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I guess it it is important first of all to see evil and good as a continuum rather than a static alignment. For realism it is necessary to explore the character's motivations for the way he behaves and then carefully detail the event(s) that lead him/her to change his outlook on his/her own behavior. No one wakes up and says "I think I' going to be evil today" and very often, those who are percieved by others as evil see themselves as justified and seek to explain the necessity or extenuating circumstances leading to their "evil" behavior. |
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Author: Xyriach (New name: xyriach) | Posted: (6528 days ago) | Previous in thread: 4567 by Child of God |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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Making a good villan is one of writings challenges. |
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Author: RiddleRose (Anyone still here?) | Posted: (6528 days ago) | Previous in thread: 4723 by xyriach |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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if they like causing pain, (emotional, mental, or physical) that sometimes makes them even worse. especially if they're the type of villain who finds out a person's mental or emotional weakness and then exploits it ruthlessly. especially if they do it in such a way that their victim doesn't know what's happening, the victim might even like the villain, and the villain might be kind to the victim. the villain would gain the trust of the victim, then use that trust to undermine the victim's security, sense of self, ego, life, whatever. that sort of thing makes the villain a bit creepy and really really hateable |
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Post nr: 4727 Thread: [3990] |
Author: Xyriach (New name: xyriach) | Posted: (6528 days ago) | Previous in thread: 4724 by RiddleRose |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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I love the way that riddlerose put that, but don't forget, that the audience doesn't have to know what you know. |
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Author: dmeredith | Posted: (6523 days ago) | Previous in thread: 4727 by xyriach |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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Also again, the best villians are 3 dimentional. i.e they sound like real people with real human motivations for the bad things they do. I think these tend to be a bit more interesting than the "Mwahahahah I'm doin EVIL!" variety. |
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Author: RiddleRose (Anyone still here?) | Posted: (6498 days ago) | Previous in thread: 4746 by dmeredith |
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heh yeah... that kind usually comes across as kind of silly... XD |
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Author: Kiddalee (I'm here. Bwahahaha!) | Posted: (6498 days ago) | Previous in thread: 4873 by RiddleRose |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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That kind is usually only in parodies these days. |
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Post nr: 4883 Thread: [3990] |
Author: dmeredith | Posted: (6496 days ago) | Previous in thread: 4874 by Kiddalee |
Subject: Help!! Trying to make a characte evil |
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Well, I'll amend your thought to say that is only used EFFECTIVELY as parody these days. There are still a number of weak stories and movies in particular that have really weak villians. Go watch any generic horror movie for example. |